Security
The DOJ has launched a legal campaign against what it says are a network of fraudsters that thrive on extracting micropayment charges in order to avoid detection by banks
"Institutions continue to report gaps in risk control areas considered fundamental to cyber hygiene, such as proper identity and access management, timely vulnerability patching or network security"
IBM is providing a custom "Asset, Configuration, Patching and Vulnerability” service with a special focus on vulnerability management.
A CVSS 9,8 bug that lets attackers spoof legitimate connectors between Microsoft/Azure services is the pick of the bunch...
You're probably exposed to rootkit risk, because vendors wanted their logos to show during boot processes -- everything's broken, howl into the abyss, why's this security advisory on a domain like https://9443417.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net anyway?
"We are forced to ‘trust’ the Internet – open inbound ports on our firewalls – and then our app server, web server or API server does the final authorization inside our DMZ..."
Hackers gained access to an employee account and pivoted to staging environment, but did not move laterally, company says.
"When we see a vulnerability or intrusion campaign that could have been reasonably avoided if the software manufacturer had aligned to secure by design principles, we’ll call it out"
ownCloud claims 200,000 installations, 600 enterprise customers, and 200 million users with customers including the European Commission.